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Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth
a shibboleth is a word used as a test for detcting people from another district or country by their pronunciation (a sound very difficult for foreigners to pronounce)... coming from the episode in the Book of Judges when the Ephraimites were stopped by the Gileadites in their attempt to flee across the river Jordan. As their dialect didn't include the sound "sh", those who could not say the word "shibboleth" were captured and killed.
SHIBBOLETH:
i could not get over the quantity of screaming messages Salcedo's work evoked.....
shibboleth - token of power, the power to judge, refuse and kill.
history of racism...running as a crack in our history - and as a permanent marker of "modernity", in the foundation of Tate Modern's cement....
and the anti war protest, in front of parliament
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| | Posted 3/16/2008 8:41 PM - 64 Views - 4 eProps - 3 comments
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